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Last week, in conferences with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, President Johnson discussed the NATO problem at length. McNamara also held long consultations in Washington with West Germany's visiting Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel; U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball was in Europe trying to sell the idea of a multilateral nuclear force (MLF), and former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer injected himself back into the discussions with a visit to Charles de Gaulle to "try to clarify existing difficulties between France and Germany...
Emerging from his Texas talk with President Johnson last week, Defense Secretary McNamara purported to see some light on the horizon. "At last," he said, "we have a civilian government, a government that gives some indication of being able to develop a consensus among the hard groups in the nation and move the nation ahead to a more effective response to the Viet Cong guerrillas who are attacking and harassing the people ... So I think that today, compared to a month ago, we can look forward with greater confidence...
...good things must come to an end. After only a few hours of sleep, Johnson was at his massive mahogany desk at the ranch, dealing with problems that had been deferred until election's end, talking by telephone to Secretary of State Rusk and Defense Secretary McNamara about fresh outbursts of long-burning problems...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was a storm center during the campaign, but he is a take-charge man after Johnson's own heart, has mastered the Pentagon bureaucracy as has no Defense Secretary before him, and of all the Cabinet officers probably stands highest with the President. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has made soft sounds about leaving for financial reasons, but the President likes him and he will probably stay on for a while...
...DEFENSE AND STATE--Johnson has widely and loudly proclaimed his respect for both Rusk and McNamara, and no changes will be made for at least twelve months, most sources suggested. The Defense Secretary feels that he still has a year's work to complete--abolishing the draft, cutting back on bases, making the department more economical--but after that period his usefulness will diminish. He would like to remain in the Administration, either at State, as has often been rumored, or in the Treasury Department...